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100

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

This is the youngest member of the greasers

Who is Ponyboy?

100

The reason Darry never when to college 

What is - he stayed home, and got a job to support Soda and Ponyboy?

100

This is what happened to Ponyboy's parents 

What is passed away in a car crash? 

100
This is what Mr. Syme talks to Ponyboy about

What is his failing grade?

100

The reason for the conflict throughout the book between the Socs and the greasers.

What is Social Class (those with power & money and those without)


100

This is "the fuzz"

What is the police?

100
This is how Ponyboy responds when Randy says he wouldn't have saved the kids.

What is - "You might have. Its the individual. It doesn't matter if you're a Soc or a greaser.

100
The kind of building Johnny and Ponyboy hide out in

What is a church?

100

This is the point-of-view used to tell the story (first, second, third)

What is first person? 

100

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

This is the book that Pony and Johnny read while hiding out

What is Gone With the Wind?

200

This is the wisecracker of the bunch

Who is Two-Bit?

200

This greaser thinks of Ponyboy as a "tagalong"

Who is Steve Randle? 

200

This is what causes the Socs to attack the boys at the park

What is -Pony and Johnny were with Cherry and Marcia and their boyfriends (Bob and Randy) were jealous? 

200

Cherry says this before she leaves Ponyboy and it shocks him.

What is - "I could fall in love with Dallas Winston."

200

Johnny thinks Dally has never really seen this

What is -a sunset?

200

This is what "like it or lump it" means

What is - just accept things the way they are because they will never change.
200

This is the reason Johnny doesn't ask any questions when Ponyboys tell him they are going to run away

What is - Johnny had been waiting to run away his whole life?
200

This is the name of the town Johnny and Ponyboy run away to 

What is Windrixville?

200

The author of The Outsiders is this

Who is S.E Hinton?

200

This is what Ponyboy and Johnny eat at the church

What is baloney?

300

This is the toughest guy in the greaser gang

Who is Dally?

300

This man was supposedly too big to fit through the window of the church

Who is Jerry Wood? 

300

Dally gives Ponyboy this, which ends up saving him.

What is his leather jacket?

300

The last words Johnny said to Ponyboy before he died

What are, "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. . . "? (pg 148).

300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

The biggest cause of Johnny's pain in life 

What is  -feeling unwanted and unloved by parents

300
Use "heater" like a greaser would in a sentence

Answers will vary

300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

Ponyboy realizes that he and his brothers and friends shouldn't be a the rumble for this reason.

What is - they could all become future convicts with no hope?

300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

This is the name of the mountain where Ponyboy and Johnny hide out in Windrixville

What is Jay Mountain?

300

This is the decade when The Outsiders takes place

When was the 1960s?

300

Name one of the period(1960s) cars in the book.

What are Sting Ray, red Corvair, and a blue Mustang?

400

This is who Ponyboy looks at in Soda's old yearbook

Who is Bob Sheldon?

400

This is Cherry's last name

What is Valance?

400

This is what happened to Soda's girlfriend Sandy 

What is she moved to Florida to live with her grandparents?

400

Ponyboy was worried about  _________ when he woke up from his concussion. (he had been delirious)

What is - not asking for Darry as much as Soda when he was delirious and saying things.

400

This is what Cherry tells Ponyboy about the Socs that he has a hard time believing

What is despite their social class, the Socs have it rough too? 


Cherry states "things are rough all over."

400

This is what "merrily" means

With energy; joyfully; happily
400

Ponyboy feels sorry for Dally when Johnny asks if his parents missed him. The reason for this is...

What is - Dally tried to be Johnny's "family" in their place, but Johnny would never be as close to him as he was to his parents, even though they beat him.

400

This is where Sodapop works

What is at the local gas station (The DX)?

400

This is how many chapters there are in The Outsiders

What is 12?

400

This is Two-Bit's prized possession

What is a black-handled switchblade?
500

The sport Dally participated in.  The only thing he was honest about.

What is horseracing? (or being a jockey)

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

This is the celebrity that the Greasers idolize.

Who is Paul Newman?

500

The two things that cause Soda the most pain in the book.

(not any of the deaths or Ponyboy's concussion or burn)

What are Sandy moving away and returning his letters?   AND   Pony and Darry arguing and putting Soda in the middle.

500

Explain how Darry and Ponyboy's relationship changes

What is - they would fight a lot at the beginning of the book. Darry slaps Ponyboy. They get closer but still fight. Soda forces them to make peace.
500

What Cherry and Ponyboy say is the real difference between the Socs and Greasers

What is that Socs don't feel anything, and greasers feel too much?

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

This is what "wistfully" means

What is dreamily, absentminded, longingly? 

500
Foreshadowing is...

What is - a literary device in a book that is used to give a hint to the reader that something eventful is about to happen.

500

This is the city where the novel takes place

What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

The author's age when she wrote the novel

What is 16?

500

The Curtis boys like to eat this with their ham and eggs.

What is chocolate cake?

600

Dally and Johnny's relationship is like this

Johnny idolizes Dally. Johnny is the only person or thing Dally ever loved.

600

This is the name of Darry's former friend who threw the first punch during the rumble.

Who is Paul Holden? 

600

Put these events in order:

Ponyboy gets jumped

Two-Bit gets jumped

The rumble

Johnny gets jumped

Ponyboy and Johnny get jumped while together



1. Johnny gets jumped

2. Ponyboy gets jumped

3. Ponyboy and Johnny get jumped while together

4. Two-Bit gets jumped

5. The rumble

600

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

Put these events in order:

Johnny dies

Dally dies

Bob dies

Ponyboy faints

Ponyboy is kicked in the head

1. Bob dies

2. Ponyboy is kicked in the head

3. Johnny dies

4. Dally dies

5. Ponyboy faints


600
Johnny's thoughts regarding the meaning of the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

What is ". . you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day."

600

This is what gallant means, and a character who was described as being gallant  

What is a heroic gentleman; Dally

600

Ponyboy is a ______________ character, not a static one.

What is dynamic?

600

The house where Ponyboy and Johnny go immediately after Johnny kills Bob.

What is Buck Merrill's house?

600

These are the 5 Ps

What is-

Prior

Planning

Prevents

Poor

Performance

600

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!

This is the kind of shirt fabric that Socs like to wear

What is madras?